Word: bitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since it was a rainy day, the recent football game quite naturally became a topic of conversation. Miss Gilmore said that she was a bit annoyed at not being able to be present at the weekly spectacles. "However," she added, "it was little Albie Booth at Yale that really made me football conscious. There is something romantic about his marvelous ability. It is a sort of Saint George and the Dragon, Machiavelli, Ubermench combination, and I should love to watch him play. To see him run down the field and Oh but I mustn't forget that you are Harvard...
Those interested in pottery as well as those whose interests are purely anthropological will find the many types of household pottery of considerable interest. One quickly senses that the potter of Nuzi had a feeling for his art that was not bounded by the bit of produce he received in exchange for his ware. Certainly he was a master artisan...
Even when the slightest bit of improvement is proclaimed, the market always seems to respond with lower quotations." While Democratic Executive Chairman Jouett Shouse was loudly jeering Chairman Fess's latest "discovery," less partisan Wall Street traders explained that one good reason why the stockmarket did not respond to Republican statements of business improvements was because the Administration's predictions, from President Hoover's down to Secretary of Labor Davis', for a turn in the economic tide, had all failed to come true...
...morning, the mountaineer, thrifty, went after his lost delicacy. It had been frostbitten during the night. As the morning sun warmed it, the jelly disintegrated. Water separated from it into a little pool leaving behind a light, glistening mass like delicate tissue-paper flowers. The mountaineer, who was a bit of a scientist, heated the residue in water, saw it resume its normal form, laid the foundations for the great agar-agar industry of Japan. The fundamental process has not changed since the mountaineer's discovery...
...sort of thing everybody's been thinking about for a long time. It's been mulling about in the sub-conscious desires of the campus and if it has anywhere come to light, it has only been a kind of wish fancy. Now we want to do a bit of wishful thinking coupled with some real freedom-giving action. Wherefore The Dartmouth comes forth to you waving banners of revolt for the accepted uncomfortable conventional...